

CDC Group plc

PRI reporting framework 2019

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Basic information

OO 01. Signatory category and services

01.1. Select the type that best describes your organisation or the services you provide.

01.3. Additional information. [Optional]

OO 02. Headquarters and operational countries

02.1. Select the location of your organisation’s headquarters.

United Kingdom



334 FTE

02.4. Additional information. [Optional]

OO 03. Subsidiaries that are separate PRI signatories


03.3. Additional information. [Optional]

OO 04. Reporting year and AUM

04.1. Indicate the year end date for your reporting year.


04.2. Indicate your total AUM at the end of your reporting year.

Include the AUM of subsidiaries, but exclude advisory/execution only assets, and exclude the assets of your PRI signatory subsidiaries that you have chosen not to report on in OO 03.2
Total AUM
trillions billions millions thousands hundreds
Assets in USD
trillions billions millions thousands hundreds

04.5. Additional information. [Optional]

Final year end numbers had not come through at time of reporting. Year-end AUM was £4.735bn but all numbers and percentages referred to throughout the report are from Q3 2018.


06.1. Select how you would like to disclose your asset class mix.

Internally managed (%)
Externally managed (%)


Listed equity <10% 8.41 <10% 6.82
Fixed income 10-50% 11 0 0
Private equity 10-50% 21.62 10-50% 33.27
Property 0 0 0 0
Infrastructure 0 0 0 0
Commodities 0 0 0 0
Hedge funds 0 0 0 0
Fund of hedge funds 0 0 0 0
Forestry 0 0 0 0
Farmland 0 0 0 0
Inclusive finance <10% 4.34 <10% 2.6
Cash 10-50% 11.94 0 0
Money market instruments 0 0 0 0
Other (1), specify 0 0 0 0
Other (2), specify 0 0 0 0

06.2. Publish asset class mix as per attached image [Optional].

06.3. Indicate whether your organisation has any off-balance sheet assets [Optional].

06.5. Indicate whether your organisation uses fiduciary managers.

06.6. Provide contextual information on your AUM asset class split. [Optional]

"Inclusive finance" is any direct investment into a company specialising in inclusive microfinance or SME lending, or any indirect investment into a fund specialising in these categories. To avoid double counting, these investments only appear in the "inclusive finance" section, although they could also fall into private equity, fixed income, and listed equity.

OO 07. Fixed income AUM breakdown

07.1. Provide to the nearest 5% the percentage breakdown of your Fixed Income AUM at the end of your reporting year, using the following categories.

Internally managed
100 Corporate (financial)
0 Corporate (non-financial)
0 Securitised
Total 100%

OO 08. Segregated mandates or pooled funds

Provide a breakdown of your organisation’s externally managed assets between segregated mandates and pooled funds or investments.
Asset class breakdown
Segregated mandate(s)
Pooled fund(s) or pooled investment(s)

Total of the asset class

(each row adds up to 100%)

[a] Listed equity
[f] Private equity
[m] Inclusive finance

08.2. Additional information. [Optional]

OO 09. Breakdown of AUM by market

09.1. Indicate the breakdown of your organisation’s AUM by market.

0 Developed Markets
45.41 Emerging Markets
45.15 Frontier Markets
9.46 Other Markets
Total 100% 100.02%

09.2. Additional information. [Optional]

CDC's mission is to support building businesses throughout Africa and South Asia, to create jobs and make a lasting difference to people's lives in some of the world's poorest places. Since 2012, CDC has made new investments only in these regions. The ethos of investing in Africa and South Asia was reiterated in the 2017 Strategic Framework, which details a range of investment strategies across our markets. For more information, see: